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栗

栗

See also: 慄 and 粟

Translingual

Han character

栗 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一田木 (MWD), four-corner 10904, composition ⿱覀木)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 522, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14695
  • Dae Jaweon: page 910, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1195, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6817

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 栗

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 栗
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 質 (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力質切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lit̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lit̚/
Li
Rong		 /liĕt̚/
Wang
Li		 /lĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 栗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lit ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]i[t]/
English chestnut tree

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 栗
Reading # 1/1
No. 7969
Phonetic
component		 栗
Rime
group		 質
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 栗
Old
Chinese		 /*riɡ/

Definitions

  1. chestnut tree, chestnuts
  2. used as a surname

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 栗 – see 慄.
(This character, 栗, is the simplified form of 慄.)
Notes:

Japanese

Noun

栗 ‎(hiragana くり, romaji kuri)

  1. a chestnut, common horse chestnut
  2. a chestnut tree

Kanji

栗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. chestnut

Readings

Korean

Hanja

栗 • ‎(ryul, yul) (hangeul 률, 율, revised ryul, yul, McCune-Reischauer ryul, yul, Yale lyul, yul)

  1. (밤): chestnut (fruit, tree)
    • 1431: 鄕藥採取月令[1] 十二月 (향약채취월령 십이월, hyang-yag-chaechwi-wolryeong sib-iwol):
      芰實鄕名末栗[2][3] (기실향명말밤, gisil-hyangmyeong-malbam, "The folk name of the water caltrop fruit is coarse chestnut.")
  2. (떨다): shivering, shuddering, trembling

Compounds

Usage notes

  1. ↑ This was authored by several scholars at the direction of King Sejong of Yi Dynasty, concerning the folk medical herb gathering by month.
  2. ↑ Cited by: 南廣祐 (1997). 敎學古語辭典. 敎學社. page 538.
  3. ↑ "末栗" is a hanja rendering for 말밤(mal-bam), the origin of 마름(mareum, 菱) "water caltrop, water chestnut," literally, "coarse chestnut" such as "horse-chestnut".
  4. ↑ Another likely literal reading is malryul, as given above.

Vietnamese

Han character

栗 (lật)

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